Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-21

| how it was possible that IgnoSiS mother.
| bearing the child with her, should have
survived the dangers OF the journey across
the mountains and the desert-dangerS
which SO nearly proved fatal to ourselves
1t has since occurred to me-and | give the
| idea to the reader for what it is Worth-that
| she must have taken this second route, and
wandered out, like Hagar, into the desert
| II she did SO, there is no longer anything
| nexplicablo about the story, since she may
well, as lgnoSi himself related, nave been
| picked up by some ostrich hunters before
she or the child were exhausted, and led by
them to the oasis, and, thence, by stages, to
the fertile country, and so on, by slow de-
greeS, southwark to Zuuland.-A. o.
Travelling easily OH the night OF the
| fourth days journey we found ourselves
once more on the crest of the mountains that
separate Kukuanaland from the desert,
which rolled away in sandy pillows at our
feet, ana ABOUT twenty-five miles to the
north of ShebaS Breasts.
At dawn on the following day, we were
led TO the commencement of precipitouS
descent, by which we were to descend the
precipice, and gain the desert two thousand
and more feet away.
Here we babe farewell to that true friend
and sturdy old warrior, Infadoo5 who
Solemnly wished all good upon us, and near
ly wept with grief. Never, my lords" he
said, shall mine old eyes see the like Of We
again. All! the way that Incubu cut his
OF that stroke with which he swept off my
brother Twala's head! 1t was beautiful
beautiful l may never hope to see such
another. except, perchance, in happy
Dreams"
We were very sorry to part from him, in
deed, Good was so moved that be gave him
as a Souvenir-What do you think?-an eye
glass. (Afterward we discovered that it was
spare one.) Infadoos was delighted, fore
seeing that the possession of such an article
after several vain attempts, actually sue
ceeded i'll ScreWlng 1t into his own eye.
Anything more 1ncOngruOuS than the old
warrior looked with an eyeglass never saw.
Eyeglasses don'5 go well with leOpard-Skin
cIOaKS and black ostrich plUmeS.
Then, having seen that our guides were
well laden with water and provisions, and
having received laundering farewell salute
from tna Butfaloe5, we Wrung the old war
rlors hand and began our downward climb.
A very aruuOuS business it proved to be,
but somehow that evening we found our
selves at the bottom without accident.
do you know" said Sir Henry that night
as we sat by our fre and gaZed uD at she
beetling cliffs above Us. Il think that there
are WOlSe places than Newfoundland i'll the
world, ana that [ have spent unhappier
Times than the last month or two, though
have never spent such queer ones. Eth! you
felIOwS@
II almost wish were back" said Good,
with a Sigh.
As for myself, L reflected that ALPS well
that ENDS We'll; but IN the course Of a long
life OF shaYes, l never hau such ShaYeS as
those | had recently experienced. The
thought Of that battle Still makes me feel
cold ali over, and as for our experience in
the treaSure-chamber-
Next morning we started on tOiSome
march across the desert, having with us a
good supply Of water carried by our guides
and campoi that night in the open, starting
again at uaWn OH the morrow
BY midday OF the third days journey we
could see the trees OF the oasis OF which the
guides spoke, and by an hour before sun
down we were once more walking upon
grass and listening 10 the sound OF running
water.